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Four alien planets could turn our solar system into a chaotic disaster

Our galaxy is full of strange worlds, but what would happen if we could bring some of them into our own Solar System? Moving ...

Star Wars Icon Officially Leaves the Sci-Fi Franchise Behind for Star Trek

Legendary Star Wars author Timothy Zahn is beaming into the Star Trek universe for a new graphic novel. Read on for more ...

Alien 'phoenix planet' was born from the ashes of a dying star

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a miraculous bird with a cyclical pattern of life and death, perishing in flames only to rise again from the ashes.

NASA Chief Jared Isaacman Publicly States That if It Is Aliens We Should Have a Seat at the Table

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman says NASA should investigate UAP if proven extraterrestrial, while noting natural phenomena ...

First-Ever Radio Signals From a Planet Outside Solar System Detected: All About the Space Milestone, Is It Related to Aliens?

Astronomers have detected radio signals directly from exoplanet Beta Pictoris b for the first time. The discovery reveals a ...

NASA’s Roman Telescope Just Took a Big Step Toward Seeing Alien Worlds

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has completed key guidance tests and given its Coronagraph Instrument its first look ...

‘Phoenix planet’ born from star’s ashes could tell us what will happen when our sun dies

They’ve called it a ‘phoenix planet’, named after the mythological bird, according to a paper published today in Nature ...

First-ever evidence of a second-generation planet detected around dead star

Scientists detected the very first exoplanets around a pulsar — a type of rapidly rotating dead star — and because pulsars ...
The Debrief

Strange Signals Were Just Detected Coming from an Alien World—and They Reveal Something Astronomers Have Never Seen Before

Scientists have traced a series of mysterious radio signals to a gigantic alien world 63 light-years from Earth.

Astronomers detect first radio signal directly from a planet outside our solar system

The signal from Beta Pictoris b is not evidence of aliens, but scientists say it could reveal an extraordinarily powerful ...

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Has Spielberg Been Conditioning Humanity for Alien Contact for Half a Century?

This article contains spoilers for the ending of the film 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and discusses 'Disclosure Day' ...